• Contact: tech-pkg
• Mentors: Aleksej Saushev
• Duration estimate: 3 months

IMPORTANT: This project was completed by Miklós HOMOLYA. You may still contact the people above for details, but please do not submit an application for this project.

The lack of TLS support in default file fetch program (net/tnftp) demands employing various tricks and hacks when creating packages. Growing number of Internet sites that use HTTPS, and software development communities around such sites (e.g. GitHub) demands, consequently, support for fetching files via HTTPS.

The goal of this project is adding TLS support (HTTPS at least) to devel/tnftp and NetBSD base ftp program.

Current state

• src/usr.bin/ftp has https support since 2013/05/05
• pkgsrc/net/tnftp does not have https support